Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Massachusetts, Vol. 5: Biographical-Genealogical House of Representatives, his term of service beginning in 1857 and ending in 1875, he declining to be a candidate for a tenth term. His congressional service covered the entire troublous period pre ceding the Civil War, and the whole of that momentous struggle. A Whig in early life, he became a Republican at the founding of the party, and he was among the most virile forces of the nation in op posing the encroachments of slavery, and in the ...
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Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Massachusetts, Vol. 5: Biographical-Genealogical House of Representatives, his term of service beginning in 1857 and ending in 1875, he declining to be a candidate for a tenth term. His congressional service covered the entire troublous period pre ceding the Civil War, and the whole of that momentous struggle. A Whig in early life, he became a Republican at the founding of the party, and he was among the most virile forces of the nation in op posing the encroachments of slavery, and in the maintenance of the Union when the national existence was at stake. The positions which be occupied during those days give eloquent attestation of his abil ity and integrity. In the House of Repte sentatives he was chairman of the com mittee on elections through the difficult war and reconstruction periods; and at other times rendered distinguished serv ice as chairman oi the committees on appropriations, and ways and means. He was among the foremost in the advance ment of many important measures. He was the father of the Weather Bureau and the National Fish Commission, hav ing provided the legislation for their establishment, and procured the meces sary appropriations; and the tariff bill of 1872 was passed by the House as he drafted it, and without amendment. While a congressman, he twice declined a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of his State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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